The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-30
DASHES HERE AND THERE.
What the Press OF the Country Thinks
About sherman's Sprlngfieid Talk.

| What the Press OF the Country Thinks
! About sherman's Springfield Talk
Richmond (Va) State: Sherman is
the arch South-hater of his time.
st. Louis Republican: John Sher-
mans Springfield speech advertises
him as coprolite of paleozelic politics.
Chicago Ne1oS: For President in 1888:
John Sherman of Ohio. Platform: 81
and my mouth against any two"
Alexandria Va.) Gazette: His hope
of support from the South having been
dissipated, his sole reliance is now
upon the North.
Chicago Tribune: John Sherman is a
great man, but his Presidential boom
appears to be frozen hard enough to
skate on already.
Petersburg (Va-) H1der-Appsai: The
further John Sherman gets away from
the South the more his speeches seem
to be dominated by the spirit of Miss
Liza Pinkston.
indianapolis Me,os: There is much
that is old and little that is new in his
speech. His aim is to convince his
party that he is the man who should be
its next National nominee.
Chicago Herald: John Sherman ought
to be ashamed to make speech like
that at Springfield TO people WHO are in
the habit of thinking with their heads
He is two far West, evidently.
Fort Worth (Tex.) Gazette: While
it must be conceded that Mr.. Sherman
is an able man, and that his speech is
skillfully constructed, even his own
party will realize that it is antiquated.
Nashville CTenn.) Banner: With
all his acknowledged ability as a
statesman, he is weak and small
enough as a politician to pander to the
lowest prejudice to boost himself into
the Presidency.
New York Herald: Senator Sher-
mans great speech in Springfield, Ill,
will probably prove to be the banana
peel of his political career. The
future will be accomplished in three
movements slip up. u slip down
and slip out.
Savannah (Ga.) Neaos: When Sem
ator Sherman was in the South. a
short time ago, he softly cooed: 1.-The
war is over" In Illinois he loudly
roared: THE Confederate idea is
still alive, and is about to destroy
our institutions.
Washington Capital: The John
Sherman boom has evidently received
terrible setback from that speech of
his at Springfield, Ill. Republicans
who had IL ever talked that way before
lare beginning to say they would as
soon nominate Brother Blaine.
ST. Louis Post Dispatch: The at
tempt to elect Hancock in 1880 on the
cry that Tilden was counted out BY
fraud in 1876 did win. Mr. Sherman's
attempt to elect himself on the cry
that Blaine was robbed of the Presi-
dency in 1884 is similarly illogical.
That tow-line does not reach him.
New York World: The St. Louis
Post Dispatch says: ut is charitable
to suppose that John Sherman is in
sane" Oh, no. There is great method
in Johns feigned madness. He is
somewhat crazy to be President, but
his mind is in most respects as clear as
bell. He is simply misguided.
Washington Post: The JesutiGcal
John may as we'll be reminded that
no man can be elected President of
the United States in this era of good
feeling who lends himself to the
mischievous business of stirring up
strife, and who alludes to the Demo-
cratic party as 1.-THE left wing of the
Confederacy."
Binghamton (N. Y Leader: John
Sherman has quite badly broken up
his presidential boom by such comical
efforts to hit upon the right way to
turn his sails. In the South he was so
glad that perpetual feeling of unity
existed between the North and South,
and all went for harmony until he
carried his boom over into Illinois,
when he found his friends there had
determined that the only issue they
could make to warm up the people
would be to unfold the old disunion
flag, so he Heated the bloody shirt
with vengeance. and the heelers
cheered to the echo, but he finds the
press of the North as well as the South
criticising his double position, and de-
precating the revival of war issues.
Sherman is therefore sad and his boom
Is already whitening In Pnor John